This February, Atlanta restaurants continued to show strong performance, however, this months’ sales considerably outpaced previous months. Atlanta restaurants saw gross sales increase by 15.2% over last February. While this continued improvement.

This August saw strong YOY restaurant sales across the country compared to last August, with a 0.6% increase in gross sales nationwide. The South Central portion of the country saw the greatest improvement with an increase of 7% in gross sales.

Across the country and across different service types, restaurants had a lower sales month this July compared to July 2017. The most obvious factor in the decline is that there were only four Saturdays in the month this year, versus the five.